like donald trump of this birtherism nonsense. shameless. that's the word for it. it's therogram of the party of abraham lincoln for 2012, do you believe it? i don't think he would be very proud of this stuff. it's incrediblso many are. it's no way to win an election. that "habafow. thanks for being with us. "the ed show" starts right now. good evening, americans and welcome to "the ed show" from new york. 42 days until the 2012 election and eight days until the fst presidential debate. present amd iof ic are calling on billionaire owners to get rid of scab refs and bring back the union workers. tonight i'm camming out mitt romney for attacking some other rking professionals. this is "the ed show." let's get to work. >> i think govnoromnd number of folks try to politicize the issue and do a lot of teacher bashing. >> the president goes after mitt

romney on education. and right on cue, mitt romney goes after the teachers. >> the teaers union has a responsibility tcareor the inrestofteachers. >> former governor howard dean and atlanta mayor react to mitt romney's educated mess scott walker and pl ryan come out against union busting. eugene robinson alen on why the nfl gets what it paid for. and on national voter registration day, ten million lati voters are in danger of being disenfranchised. we'll brin you the shocking details of aew rept tt coswthle to mitt romney. >> good to have you with us. thanks for watching. americans are up in arms after a blown call in a football game. it's amazing what gets the country's attention. the nfl is in a labor mess because millionais e trying to setlon

busting the referee's union. i'll have more to say about this in a few moments. but today we learned what kind of labor issue we will have on our hands if mitt romney is president. it will affect tuture of education in this country. ttnearpa in nbc's education nation summit today. the candidate had so few specifics about future plans for education he sounded more like a low-information voter than a candidate for president. >> education is about teachers, great leadership and parents. and thenias aifnt objective. i understand. it's fine for them to promote it. it's n niefine for us to go alog with it. >> romnewent back to this point many times in the interview. teachers unions are to blameor th educational system. president obama entered a counterpoint. >> i think governor romney and a number of folks try to

politicize the issue and do a lot of teacher bashing. when i meet teachers across the country, they are so devoted and de dedicated to their kids. >> devoted, devotion, loving their profession. that's what teachers are about, but romney didn't say anything like that. they are the problem. many of romney's answers were superficial. one of his big solutions for education reform is aewne that whave bnal a for 70 years p parental involvement. >> i'd love to see parents very much evoed in evaluating the success of schools. if parent rs show up at parent/teach nightkids are waen stepped up with a question, romney wasn't too happy with the parent's involvement. >> new york city the parents here support the union to otect our kids three to one over the mor and t chll ths me this is coming from a poll of

parents. >> i don't believe it for a minute. i know something about polls, and i know you can ask questions to getny answer you want. and i do know this. hg ldtol i know the teachers union has a responsibility to care for the interests of the teachers. >> so much for parents being involved. mitt rney said he didn't believe the man for a second. folk the poll does exist. it was cited numerous times by the romney campaign when the numbers are in their favor. he says polls can ask any question to get any answer you want. we got curious. what the heck kind of questions didhey ask on this poll. who do you trust more to protect the interest of school students? mayor bloomberg or the teachers union? pretty straight forward. here are the results. 31% said the mayor.

56% said the teachers union. when the question was asked only to people in the city who have kids in the public schools, the gap was wider. 22% said mayor bloomberg. 69% said the union. more than three to one. this underscores how off base mitt romney is when it comes to the perception of teachers unions in america. mitt romney is so confused on this issue he actually made the case for the teachers in chicago today inhe interview. >> ecation is done at the state level. the federal government provides funding for special needs students and for low-income students. >> it's just that easy, right? one of the main reasons the teachers went on strike for the first time in 25 years was because of resources and the lack of resources in the classroom. it's different throughout the city. they can't afford to cut to federal and state funding. they can't afford those cuts.

that's exactly what would happen if a mitt romney became president ofhe united states. the romney/rn ple'he list, folks. cut pell grants for more than nine million students, eliminate head start programs for two million children, and cut $5 billion in title one funding for low-income and special needs students. good plan? republicans want to cutun for public education because, you see, they have a different plan. it's called for-profit education. charter schools are a huge profit center and theare very attractive to vulture capitalist like mt romney. >> the great thingbout charter schools if they il,ou close them. you invoke their chart er. i believe that difference is one of the reasons charter schools s been able to improve the quality of education of those students who beat their path to the door. >> really? improve?

atu sd charter schools are twice as likely to underperform rather than overperform. buwho cares when you can make a buck? we don't want to pay attention to stanford. speaking of money, this is the othereaso ryan and romney, see i always put ryan's name first because that's really what the cservatives want. the reason why romneynd ryan want to slash public education, here it is. >> the teacher unionsre a to cnuen of millions of dollars to the campaigns of politics and then those politicis when elected stand across from them at the bargaining table supposedly to represent the interests of the kids. i think it's a mistake. we have to get the money out of teachers unions o that' all about. it's about the democratic political base because, heck, a worker might have an opinion in the workplace that might want to

contribute in the democracy that this countryoffers, some people, evod ry is just like scott walk walker in wisconsin. he's just like every union-busting governor in america. they think everything can be solve solved by one thing and that's privization. artescs will come in and get it done. they don't care what happens to the workers and the workers are the ones who are getting the shaft. but wait a minute. what abouthe kids? romney -- it's not just romney, seriously. but romney is very flawed on this sue. is country needs c t grips that you can't go into poor neighborhoods and raise property taxes and expect that all the education pblems are going to be fixed in america. we have to federally fund public education, no child ft behind, the money never showed up to the

districts around the country. conservatives don't want to fund it and the democrats don't have the political power to make sure that it gets done so that's why we have failing schools in this country. for the first time in 25 years, the teachers in chicago went on strike. they didn't go on strike because they thoughthey were getting rewhteo paycheck. they went on strike because they wanted to make sure that every classroom was properly resourced and every kid had a fhting chance to make it in america. mitt romney, if you want to draw the le here, really made t se t 47% in education today, don't you think? he's willing to admit that some kids are just going to fail and we'll just blame it on the damn unions and the teachers that want to make more money. how repulsive it is. t ur cell phones out. o you tru to protect students' best interests? text a for president obama and b for mitt romney to 622639. you n go to our blog.

we'll bring you results later o in the the show. two gemon, er governor howard dean and also california seem reid, mayor of atlanta, georgia. governor dean, you first. what is the republican view of public education? if i'm wrong in my assessment, correct me. >> i like charter schools but not-for-profit charter schools. they have created some opportunities in the classroom. but i think this business about bashing teachers unions is insane. theeoho shay innovators of education go in and trash the teachers, i don't know of anybody who has run a company successfully that trashes the workforce the first thing they do when they get there. i don't think the repubcans give a damnbout mxc themselves. i'd like to know if mitt romney ever attended a public school.

>> mayor, would cuts in ucation spending affect your city? and i raise the question this way. you have some poor nehborhoods, every major metropolitan city in this coy sor neighborhoods, how should we fund those school districts? >> we need to send resources where schools are having challenges and the federal vernment is playing a part under president obama. but let's be cle on why mitt romney is taking theit he's take iing. because he wants to provide his friends a $5 trillion tax cut and he knows that he can't pay for that without cutting public education. that's the bottom line. he wants to keep all of george bush's tax cuts for everyone and then he wants to add a $5 trillion tax cut as the central plank of his policy. and in order to do that, he won't hesitate to despairage hard-working teachers, because after all, they are a part of the 47% that he believes

jeopardize the performance of at wt ey is willing to cut education. >> governor, didn't mitt romney admit today it's about going after a voting bloc? >> that was a disgrace wh he said there. he's been financed by the coke brothers who write fat checks om over the place.hey tin i wouldn't mind being responsive to the millions of teachers all over america, at least they ar real americans, opposed to these two americans using their mey to influence the election syem. th wasayhestng he said. he said a lot of awful things, but that was really pretty rank. >> mayor, what would you do if your state were to cut education again? how would you fund it? what would you do? where do mayorin big cities go now? >> fortunately, every time we have any referendum related to education, our folks decide to

invest. we would find a way to move forward. but that's not a healthy system in america. folks are criticizing teachers unions ntoliha% of all our kids are in public schools. i was a public school kid. they are the only system in our public school where teachers say, bring us all of your children. we can't forget that. and that's why mitt romney is losing. that's why he's losing siryngte withnd that's why he's the exception of perhaps north carolina. because he doesn't identify with what middle-class people need and that's the ability to have an excellent school in their neighborhood with a competent, capable teacher with experience the community knows and trusts. >> mayor and governor, great to have you with us. answer tonight's questions. share your thoughts on twitter and facebook. coming up, republicans don't mind inexperienced low-st

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coming up, scott walker shows support for a union after a blown call cost the green bay packers a win. scott brown continues toac hager her heritage. even as he apologized for the racist chants kaugts on tape. and after tea partiers ousted senator dick lugar in the primaries, indiana republicans ar struggling to keep his sena seat. i'll talk w the challenger congressman joe donnelly later in the program. share your thoughts on facebook and twitter. we're coming right back.

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show." thanks for watching tonight. it's the blown football call the entire country ikit. >> takes the long receiver to the left, the packers play it at the goal line. wilson scrambles to keep it alive. the game's final play is a loft to the end zon which is fought fo byaeth jennings simultaneous. who will they give it to? touchdown! >> clearly a mistake. the final play on the game shld have been ruledy an interception.

the nfl released a statement toy standing by the ruling on the field. nfl players are more than outraged over this bad call. packers quarterback aaron rodgers told his radio audience today the gam is being tarnished by an nfl that obviously cares more aut e grof gneyhan ng diminished a little bit. this story has blown up so much politicians are getting in the act and takingabs. paul ryan was so outraged he's ready to change his position on organized labor. how about that? >> did you guys watch that me give me a break. it is time to get the real refs. and you know what? it reminds me of president obama and the economy. ifou can't g it right, it's time to get out. >> mitt romney also touched on the e earlier today. >> i sure would like to see some

experienced referees come back tohe nfl playing fields. >> paul ryan called those refs out today. are you glade did that? >> that's just fine. paul was angry that the packers, he believes they won and the refs took it away from them. >> push this button and i'll laugh. he has no clue. ryan isn't the only angry wisconsin politician. eretut after catching a few hours of sleep, the paccer game is still painful. return the real refs. walker and ryan all of a sudden, aren't they for busting unions until it affects the outcome of theifootball team? this is unbelievheir real on this. president obama tweeted today. nfl fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs lock out is settled soon. i have to be fair about this. it wld have been nice to see that tweet about the chicago

blicoo ac. the story is about more than just a blown call. it's about labor. this is an issue that strikes at the very core of what we do with workers in this country. the broad republican philosophy to do w eark ggh the bottom line. this is what the nfl is doing right now. they are getting what they paid for. even after last night's blown call, the nfl is holding firm against the refs. the main sticking point isob securi. rese rhehey ant to be able to want to. the same thing is playing out whe? with the chicago public school teachers. if you're not good, we're going to get rid o you. we don't need football. in the scheme of things, as far as oer workers are concerned who are farorert i pr itahe comes to educating your kid. how about the teachers that you trust your children to every

day? do you want replacement works there? or how about the firefighters you trust in emergencies? first respders, do you want a esn't know what the hell is going on? i think the nfl owners love this. this is their power trip and they won't be backing down any time soon. they it probably made a calculated decision early on in the process that we're going to ak of money., but we're going let's stick together and live through it. that's why you're not seeing a lot of people who do nfl games speak up and give their opinion. the nfl has got a pretty good hold on them. that's if they want to be arod the leag anymore. they are that strong. let's turn to william roden and eugene robinson, msnbc political analyst. gentlemen, great to have you with us tonigh eugene, you first. n hn iblemn

its hands and even politicians are weighing in on this. i remember al davis before he passed away. he always believed the nfl is part of our culture in america. i guess we're finding that out. what do u make of the reaction? ybisa tchab momtis crle about unions and about experience on the job and about getting what you pay for. but you know, last night was a travesty. they blew that last call twice. there was anffenve inerenhat they didn't make. but it's going to get worse than this. with these inexperienced refs on the field who cannot control the game, the violence is just going to increase. i saw head to head hits that didn't get called d at's it'snget out of hand and people are going to get hurt. >> bill, let me ask you about this story. is this an image problem for the league in the way they are

handling it right now? >> in way, but you hit the nail head so myimes abo ns they know that we are as a country addicted to professional football. they were emboldened last night. they are saying, we have these people right where they want. are we going to tch e wnba 'r going to be watching sunday. we're going to come back. this is going to blow over because we have no choice. but i think you hit something. i think we have to be focused on th. wee in a battle. so as matter of principle, i don't like people who are scabs. i don't care what profession it is. i don't like people who will take advantage of someone being locked out to take their place. that's wrong. and you have these billionai owners and youe absolutely right. you're talking about this

election. you have these billionaire owners who locked out the players. why? because the american people are addicted to this ort. eyic tetting and they will come back. >> the hypocrisy i find just amazing. scott walker and paul ryan it's shocking, they are willing to go along with uon referees. >> it's amazing. it's absolutely amazing, ed e, the kind of change of color we have seen from the republicans on this. but you know, it's going to have to be the owners that decide to do the right g. caha lf h they are going to because they basically already got their money. their big money comes from television. >> they care about two things and that's asses in seats and eyes on the television screen.

and the question is do you think this is goingo afft pele view the nfl saying i'm going totake a break from this stuff. >> the ratings are higher than they have ev been. this makes more people want to watching. >> so they are going to tu in to sf the res are goin t'kereou reality show. they are going to come back in bigger numbers thursday and saturday. the nfl say we can lock these guys up all year. >> i admire aaron rodgers and some of the other players for speaking their mind on this. an injuiceasne there's probably going to come a time it's going to happen to every team. it's a cheaper product. i think we're talking about billionaires who don't want to do a little bit of pinching for some referees that want a little job security after they ha contributed mucohe league in building it up over the years, they deserve better and they are getting shafted and the fans are getting shafted.

great to have you gentlemen with us tonight. coming up, a republican crown crosses the line. a senate candidate pin his hopes on a racial attack. see how the strategy is backfiring next. and president obama holds a strong lead over mitt romney with latino voters but a new study finds that voter suppression laws could nfhi0 mon latino citizens. stay with us.

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to secure your family's future today. welcome back to "the ed show the republicans have picked a weird strategy to win the most expensive senate race in the country. republic scott walker is doubli down on his claim that challenger elizabeth warren lied about being native american. things got ugly this weekend when brown's campaign staff started taunting with racist chants. >> a bton television station says four of the people are member of scott browspa staff. one reportedly works in brown's

united states senate office. what are the grounds for firing in his office any way? brown says the chanting is certainly something i don't condone,ut he doesn't stop there. he actuay repeats the attack, which inired histas fiple. he says the real offense is that warren said she was white and then checked the box sayg that she was native american. en s chaed h prole tenure.hee so brown doesn't want to talk about massachusetts' economy, educion or health care. he's fixated on elizabeth warren's racial heritage. in fact, he's lnching thisew atta a an race is the first thing talked about the in debate. >> warren claimed she was a native american, a person of color, and as you can see, she's not. i don't know, and neither do the viewers know, whether in fact she got ahead as a result of the

checking of the box. tin in the latest polls, but he seems convinced this race issue will get him reelected. joining me is joan walsh,uthor of the book "what's the matter with white peop?" nit to yh u i'm stunned at senator brown's office and their reaction to those chants. your thoughts on this. >> it's just another outbreak of frat boy conservatism. to go anmock someone's rial eneabohe story, i thought, you know, they are some volunteers or overzealous republicans. to find out that four of them are on his staff, it's trageous. but i was watching the debate and when he brought this claind h sa clearly she's not cherokee, look at her, i was

like, what planet does this man live on where as a white man he gets to say what her racial heritage and classification is? it's so ignorant. ttitte people?"okha t . i love white people, but what's the matter with certain white people scott brown demonstrate it is. he's obviously from a white world where you don't understand that people have varying kinds of ethnicity and they may not look the way you expt t to look and may photo be what they look like. you don't go around putting yourself in charge of deciding what they are. >> for a sitting united states senator, or anybody for that matter, to not distance themselves from this, i fd utrly amazg. do hehink ts a upside that this is going to help him in the election? >> he clearly does. when i saw the debate i tweeted that it reminded me of jesse hems's white hands ad. it male anxiety and even

resentment about minorities and women getting ahead because of affirmative action. you remember that ad. it showed white male hands crumpling a rejection lter d yodeseed tt nd 'tet it because opponents supported affirmative action. but this is massachusetts ad. it's a swing state. i don't thinkt will work. i think it will ck. h ous really desperate. >> warren is appalled by the video but wouldn't go any further than that. the other thing is it's clear that senator brown is trying to set her up for being a liar, a character flaw that she lied about her herage oner apatanhe got her tenure that she changed that in the law directory. suspect that a little deep for

voters to comprehend here? >> it is. this was an issue, "thbost e" hd o reporting about it in the spring. >> so he's scrambling? this is a guy in trouble. >> it hasn't registered so far. she's got a really effective ad where she says, scott brown wants to attack my famil but i'm going to keepigg yoam that's what he's doing. her brothers and sisters came out and said we were told the story of discrimination within our own family with those ch cherokee roots. sohe ia that s lng t wh ss ea quoueondig of desperation. >> i think he could have retrieved himself if he fired some of those people on the video and made a clear statement. if it's about a candidate lying or if it's about heritage, but now he's gone along with the mocking. >> iin it amazing.

joan walsh, thank you. stay with us. >> if you don't deport them, how do you send them home? >> the answer is self-deportation. people decide they could do better by going home because they can't finork bse thonaveg documentation. >> republicans are attempting to disenfranchise up to ten million latino voters in the fall. you'll never believe how they are trying to do it. that's xt. >> that's q a guy. >> and mitt romney shows how jealous he is of his running mate in ohio. you won't believe this priceless video. stick around. >> every now and then i'm known to make a mistake. i did not make a mistake with this guy. [ emalanunceneel kngr stbae? recommended probiotic. try the #1 gastroet align. align naturally helps maintain digestive balance. ♪ ooh, baby, can i do for you toda ♪

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it's about voter suppression. welcome back to "the ed show." today was national voter registration da inewy, it finds these efforts are needed now more than ever. particularly for latino citizens in america. the study released by the advancement project finds voter suppression laws could senfhien million latino voters in 2012. the influence of latino voters have grown over the past ten years. the 21 million citizens represent 10% of eligible voters and it's projected this yea the number could top 25 mlion ter jr o t nation's eligible voters. basically, the latino vote could play a decisive and major role in this presidential election. in a recent poll of voters finds president obama leading mitt

tt voting power has been under attack with the flood of new republican-led state level voting restriction. the study finds voter purge being enacted in 23 states could ctoter registration and participation by latino citizens. in fact, in many states the number exceeds the margin of victory, exceeds the margin of victory in the last election 2008. that number could grow. it could grow if theseaws aroc codoid two states to watch, they are cited as identifying voters for possible purging by comparing their voter registrations with driver's license data bases. here's how it works. naturalized citizensecei thliesn they were legal immigrants. before they became naturalized citizens, which means this use

of outdated information specifically targets naturalized citizens. these laws are an asslt on rnlie voters into second class citizens. let's bring in marie e ya theresa kumar, the president of voto latino. this is a big deal. what's the game plan? >> it'a dl. wee taing t ic whppo atth will be disenfranchised from the process. when you're talking about elections when only won by less than 1 or 2%, in north carolina president obama won the presidency with five votes per in ths close election. we're talking about a rise in the voter in florida, texas, pennsylvania, who is having these outrageous laws where one in six latinos will be disenfranchised. ericans should be outraged. twnondheex0 can you rister

days? that's really what it comes down to. >> absolutely. today is national voter registration day. it's historic. we had 50 secretary ostate, both republican and democrats coming together saying we need this action today. we he been ae t rte clo 100,000 individuals just today alone. we see a ground swell, but it's not enough. we need to make sure americans talk to each other about voter i.d. laws, prepare to go to the polls and make se people realize at the ballot box it's ingo florida icanr. and do this story. florida has set near impossible deadlines to prove citizenship. how does president obama win? how do the democrats get their vote out when they have these road blocks in front ofthem ouhecorner. >> it's around the corner, but folks have to get informed of whatind of i.d. they need. oneover the biggest problems in

florida is they have done voter purges thahave been stopped. they went after voters with surnesin they weren't sure if they were citizens or not. we have to make sure we're communicating to our communities, understanding what the voter i.d. laws are and how to make sure we're getting those i.d.s. >> the numbers add u that this it could be the election. fair enough? >> this is a game plan. the biggest problem is you can't change the rules in the middle of the game because you're afraid of the outcome. you can't steal the vote. you should be trying to sway them and make sure they are partipating. >> what do you make of what's going on in pennsylvania? pennsylvania voter i.d. could prt of six latinos from voting. >> that's close to 250,000 americans disenfranchised at the polls. what's beautiful about it is you see organizations coming together and trying to get the e le tbee pss these onerous i.d. laws, the state can't create the i.d.s

fast enough for the folks that need it. this is an american issue. the fact you want to prevent an american from voting, we should be talking about it every day. >> great to have you w u epth great work. coming up, mitt romney tries to lead a chant, but the crowd has other ideas. stay with . [ rosa ] i'm rosa and i quit smoking with chantix. when the doctor told me that i could oke for the first week... i'm like...yeah, ok... little did i know that one week later i wasn't smoking. chixprovennouncer to help people quit smoking. it reduces the urge to smoke. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these stop tang cntix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any ory of depes stop tang cntix and call your doctor right away. ot ntahealth problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these stop taking chantix and see your doctor right away as some can be life-threatening.

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hee oifter him on style and substance. >> richard mourdock fights for sendg jobs to china. we need more common sense. jt one point four years ago, but is not expected to win the state this time around. the strategy is to tie don donnell lee to obama. >> hoosiers have a choice. continue dow the path donnelly and obama. >> joining me tonight is joe donnelly, the congressman from indiana who is challenging the tea party candidate. good to have you with us tonight. you're going up againsthe candidate who really unrsco last couple years. does that play in your favor? >> yeah, he has been incredibly reckless, ed. one statement after another.

hoosiers are not buying his extremagenda. if you want to see the extres to where he's gone, this is r primary, he said lugar betrayed conservatives. lugar ian indiana hero. he worked nonstop to make the world safer by reducing nuclear weapons. we have seen just the comment that you said about bipartanship richard has said medicare is unconstitutional, that social security is unconstitutional. he has said that employer health cares don't have to cover health care covers. it's been one after another. eks richard has disappeared. and they are hoping to through the super pacs buy the senate seat. >> do you mind being tied to president obama in a campaign ad he's putting out? or do you wear that as a badge of honor? >> i hbene of tt independent members of congress

my entire time there. and so i have always said i respect president bush, i respect president obama and when president obama is rit, i'll vote with him and when he's not, i won't. i vote on behalf ofpeople. i think it's fair to say that in indiana both democrats and republicans, the mostmportant thing we can do is stand up and do what's right for our country. >> why are republicans not coming to bat for richard? is is-on see the fever pitch attitude for him i have seen in other races. >> because he insulted mr. republican. to me an american hero, richard lugar, before the primary and after the primary. hoosier reic hoosier democrats, they don't believe that medicare is unconstitutional like mourdock has said. and don'telieve that employer

health care shouldn't cover canc care. >> what about the outside money? is thatay >>is breathtaking. carl rove just dropped $1 million in the past few days for one week of television. and in indiana, that's like buying every commercial for the entire week. >> h does the automobile loan, does that play in your state? >> yeah, particularly for the fact that richard mourdock was the person to file suitor the quidation ofry. hent $3 million on new york law firm fees while at the same time that's indiana taxpayer money trying to destroy indiana auto jobs. and let me tell you from one end of the state to the other, idenough.s sav we're proud to work